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deficit of no less than 29 inches.
Between October 1893, and April
1894 the Colony suffered much from
want of rain, and the plague of the
latter
year
originated from
supply.
see pposed to have
a
deficient
ivater
Though the drought for the first b
mouths
of
this
year
has been far
Prou
that of
1 8 9 3
/8
894, the
flague
a week's supply left in them.
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avrex
a
Memo of the Rainfall at
Hongkong Observatory which may
to the Meteorological
be interesting to
Department
en don don.
I have the honour
My Lord.
to be.
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble Servant.
Minna Robiniger
serious than
has happily not reappeared
in an epidemic form.
as we have as
yet only had 16 cases, many of which
lvere
The
introduced from the mainland. gener
al health also is good. In the
nearly
meantime the reservoirs
are exhausted, having only about
a week's
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